[Dspace-general] Release 1.0 of production OAI ORE Specification

[Michele Kimpton]

(The full copy of this Press Release is at http://www.openarchives.org/documents/ore-production-press-release.pdf 
  )

Over the past two years the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a  
project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered  
international experts from the publishing, web, library, repository,  
and eScience communities to develop standards for the identification  
and description of aggregations of Web resources.   These standards  
provide the foundation for applications and services that can  
visualize, preserve, transfer, summarize, and improve access to the  
aggregations that people use in their daily Web interaction: including  
multiple page Web documents, multiple format documents in  
institutional repositories, scholarly data sets, and online photo and  
music collections.   The OAI-ORE standards leverage the core Web  
architecture and concepts emerging from related efforts including the  
semantic web, linked data, and Atom syndication.  As a result, they  
integrate both with the emerging machine-readable web, Web 2.0, and  
the future evolution of networked information.

The production versions of the OAI-ORE specifications and  
implementation documents are now available to the public, with a table  
of contents page at http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc.  This public  
release is the culmination of several months of testing and review of  
initial alpha and beta releases. The participation and feedback from  
the wider OAI-ORE community, especially the OAI-ORE technical  
committee, was instrumental to the process leading up to this  
production release.

The documents in the release describe a data model to introduce  
aggregations as resources with URIs on the web. They also detail the  
machine-readable descriptions of aggregations expressed in the popular  
Atom syndication format, in RDF/XML, and RDFa.  The documents included  
in the release are:

  ·       ORE User Guide Documents

o   Primer

o   Resource Map Implementation in Atom

o   Resource Map Implementation in RDF/XML

o   Resource Map Implementation in RDFa

o   HTTP Implementation

o   Resource Map Discovery

·       ORE Specification Documents

o   Abstract Data Model

o   Vocabulary

·       Tools and Additional Resources



Carl Lagoze - Cornell University - lagoze at cs.cornell.edu

Herbert Van de Sompel - Los Alamos National Laboratory - herbertv at lanl.gov
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